384 Abrams M1A1 SA for Morocco

Sujet: 384 Abrams M1A1 SA for Morocco Sam 17 Oct 2015 - 15:57

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Citation :: FMS program continues GDLS, ANAD partnership

The depot and General Dynamics Land Systems will partner throughout the next two years to produce 200 M1A1 Situational Awareness tanks for Morocco.

An additional agreement for 22 tanks is awaiting congressional approval.

According to Amy Weichel, chief of the Morocco Program Office for Main Battle Tank Systems, the first 50 tanks will be overhauled completely at ANAD utilizing M1 tanks currently in storage at the installation.

"This initial quantity will provide the country of Morocco with a sufficient quantity of Abrams training tanks until the remaining tanks can be delivered," Weichel said.

The additional 150 tanks will be rebuilt using the Abrams Integrated Management Process.

Tanks produced using AIM are disassembled down to the bare hull and sandblasted at ANAD then sent to Lima Tank Plant in Ohio where assembly of the tanks will take place at a GDLS facility.

Production is slated to begin later this year with the last tanks schedule for delivery in mid-2018.

"This will assist Anniston in maintaining core skills for the Abrams tank at a time when domestic production has been paused awaiting the System Enhancement Program Version three," said Tommy Morgan, the logistics lead for the depot's Logistics and Business Development Office.

In addition to assistance with disassembly and overhaul of the tanks and some M1 components, the depot will also provide assistance in Morocco with deprocessing at ports of entry and field service repair, according to Weichel.

http://www.tacomlcmccommunityreport.com/news/10.15news5.aspx

Al Monitor / Jack Detsch a écrit:: Pentagon sends surplus tanks to Morocco

The Donald Trump administration greenlighted the delivery of 162 Abrams tanks to Morocco last year to help the kingdom respond to regional challenges.

US government documents reviewed by Al-Monitor indicate that the delivery of the vehicles was approved in September as part of an effort to move forward with deals to outfit the North African nation with more than $115 million in US equipment the Pentagon no longer needs. Under the Excess Defense Articles program, or EDA, surplus military equipment that hasn’t been offered to domestic police forces can be made available at reduced or no cost to foreign allies.

Deliveries of excess US military equipment to Morocco have sped up in recent years, suggesting that the Pentagon may see the program as an avenue to fast-track sales instead of relying on other programs that require extensive approval from the administration and Congress to go ahead.

The Moroccans “get $15 million a year in [regular] military aid from the US, so $100 million for one project is pretty massive,” Seth Binder, an analyst with Strategic Research and Analysis, a US-based consultancy, told Al-Monitor. “People complain that the arms sales process is too slow. I’ve been wondering if they use EDA if that process would speed up.”

Pentagon deals with Morocco that moved ahead under the program during Trump’s first year in office account for more than a quarter of the $430 million that the EDA program implemented, authorized or delivered to the entire Middle East, according to an Al-Monitor review of Department of Defense records. In addition to the tanks, Rabat received tracked command post vehicles, grenade launchers and howitzers as well as 419 armored personnel carriers.

The deliveries are part of US and European efforts to strengthen Morocco’s military to deal with drug-trafficking and terrorist networks that are proliferating throughout North Africa as the Islamic State collapses in Iraq and Syria.

Morocco is the largest US weapons buyer in the Pentagon’s 53-country Africa Command and “has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to operate and maintain advanced US equipment,” according to a statement made by the Africa Command commander, Marine Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, to Congress last month.

The uptick in deliveries of used weapons comes amid increasing congressional scrutiny of domestic use of US surplus military equipment by police units following the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri, that denounced law enforcement violence against African-Americans. The Barack Obama administration banned domestic deliveries of armored vehicles, .50 caliber ammunition and riot equipment to local law enforcement the following year.

The EDA program could prove helpful to the Pentagon as it leans more heavily on foreign militaries to fight Islamist extremists as US Defense Secretary James Mattis hones his focus on countering the military threat from rising powers such as China and Russia. In the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, for instance, the United States relies on advisers to assist partners such as the Iraqi Security Forces and Syrian Democratic Forces. But as the Islamic State dwindles, US troops rarely accompany their Iraqi counterparts on missions, American commanders say.

More excess defense equipment also flowed to traditional American counterterrorism partners in 2017, including deliveries of M2 machine guns and artillery ammunition support vehicles to the Lebanese Armed Forces. The Pentagon also accepted or began implementing letters of acceptance to send out seven SH-60F Seahawk helicopters for Israel and equipment to help Egypt’s fighter aircraft operate in bad weather.

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J'ai compté 48.

Notice that it is equipped with BFT system ( blue force tracking)
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Dommage que les premiers lots n en ete pas équipé sauf si on allait le faire nous même c est pour ca je croyais qu on allait voir EPLRS

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48 c'est un GEB.
le premier lot devait etre le lot des Abrams d'entrainement.
Bonne nouvelle pour le blue forec, démultiplicateur de puissance et les FAR entre dans le 21ème siècle
a mettre en relation avec le gros contrat communication avec Harris

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Oui au total ca sera 8 GEB.
Pour Harris c est du très lourd ca va reconfigurer la communication des FAR dommage qu on a pas plus de détails

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John F. Kennedy: « Vous qui, comme moi, êtes Américains, ne vous demandez pas ce que votre pays peut faire pour vous, mais demandez-vous ce que vous pouvez faire pour votre pays. Vous qui, comme moi, êtes citoyens du monde, ne vous demandez pas ce que les États-Unis peuvent faire pour le monde, mais demandez-vous ce que vous pouvez faire pour le monde. ».